Andrea 🔎🌱⛓️‍💥

It’s probably a good day to explain to your non-scientist socials that graduate students are not merely the next generation of academic science, they are an important component of the current scientific labor force. Feel free to mention that this is cut rate labor as well.

between NIH and “stop all DEI [which is anything] or get no funding,” I think they just don’t want universities to exist.

The logo of These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5, which is a round logo with a 5 drawn in purple squares on a 7x7 crossword grid, with the words "these puzzles fund abortion" and two stylized stars going around the grid, sits in front of a background crossword grid in two shades of purple

We are in the final stretch of editing These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5! I am so proud of the puzzles we've pulled together — although times are dark, our puzzles highlight joy, community, and solidarity 💕✨

You can learn more and donate for presale here:
fund.nnaf.org/tpfa

🥹❣️ from A Science of our Own: Marxism and Nature by Richard Levins

I’ll specify that there are actually a lot of scientists organizing, and those are the scientists that are involved in their labor unions

Can we as ecologists & biologists who are losing jobs and funding left and right, organize now?

Some poems & photos enjoy or don't!

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Spent a few days floating in the woods and mountains with amazing friends, entering a new decade of life, only to come crashing back to the reality that is american fascism & the erasure of our rights. Ain’t nothing like it!

The regime is 100% coming for academic freedom and most of university admins will buckle... unless we force them to do something else. If you don't already have a union get involved with @aaup.bsky.social

Close-up photo of low growing Arctic flowering plants taken near Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada in mid-July. In the center of the image is Dryas integrifolia (Vahl), flowering in white, surrounded by Vaccinium vitis-idaea (L.), flowering in pink to white, pale green fruticose lichens, and a pebble. [Photo credit: Paul Markley]

Check out this new Review in the #AJB!

The changing #biodiversity of the Arctic flora in the Anthropocene

By Paul Markley, Collin Gross & Barnabas Daru

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #climatechange

Science is political and science is labor, duh. Why scientists need to organize with their labor unions & other ramblings

I wrote some silly little ramblings about how scientists need to be organized and how a great place to learn about organizing is through our labor unions, timely!

open.substack.com/pub/meltingp...

Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science

(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)

Training for a 100 mile gravel race with All Bodies on Bikes at this moment in time…is doing wonders for my menty health 💖 bikes are cool af, highly recommend

It's always a good day to organize your workplace.

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

What I’m reading today
#booksky

Same 😭

educate yourself for the coming conflicts.